The World Series of Darts involves seven events across the world and comes to a conclusion with Finals night, as the biggest names in the sport battle it out for the £80,000 prize.
Dates
The 2025 World Series of Darts Finals took place on Friday 12th September and ran until Sunday 14th September.
While the World Series of Darts schedule for 2026 hasn't yet been revealed, we can expect the Finals night to come in September.
Prize Money
Winner | £80.000 |
Runner-up | £40,000 |
Semi-finals | £25,000 |
Quarter-finals | £17,500 |
Second round | £10,000 |
First round | £5,000 |
The total prize fund amounts to £400,000 at the World Series of Darts Finals, with the winner taking home a lucrative £80,000.
Venue & Location
The venue for the 2025 World Series of Darts Finals was the AFAS Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The arena is primarily a music venue and has a capacity of 6,000. It has hosted World Series of Darts Finals on six occasions.
The AFAS Arena has been the home of the event in recent years, hosting every year since 2019, with the exception of 2020.
While there's been no confirmation on the whereabouts of the 2026 World Series of Darts Finals, Amsterdam's AFAS Arena is expected to host once more.
Line-up and Qualifying
Each event of the World Series of Darts gives qualifying points that adds up to help players qualify for the World Series of Darts Finals.
In 2025,he top eight players with the most points qualified automatically for the Finals, while the other spots were made up of additional qualifiers from the World Series Order of Merit, the top four players on the PDC Order of Merit who had not already qualified and PDC Tour Card holders.
32 players competed in the 2025 World Series of Darts Finals in total.
Format and Rules
The 2025 World Series of Darts Finals consisted of five different stages, the first round, second round, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals.
All players enter at the first round stage, as opposed to some events where seeded players enter in round two.
The leg format is as follows:
- First round: Best of 11 legs
- Second round: Best of 11 legs
- Quarter-finals: Best of 19 legs
- Semi-finals: Best of 21 legs
- Final: Best of 21 legs
History
The 2025 edition was the eleventh time the World Series of Darts Finals have taken place, with 2015 the inaugural edition. There were two years before that with World Series of Darts events but no Finals to crown an overall winner.
Michael van Gerwen has dominated the World Series of Darts Finals since they were introduced in 2015, lifting the trophy six times.
Gerwyn Price is the only other player to win multiple World Series of Darts Finals titles, taking the crown in both 2020 and 2022.
The other three winners have been James Wade in 2018, Jonny Clayton in 2021 and Luke Littler in 2024.
